Western Sydney University suffers cyber attack, personal data compromised

The university discovered the breach almost two weeks later on August 27, and by August 31, the access was “contained.”

Now, the University has announced that its investigations have unveiled that personal data was accessed in the incident including “names, addresses, University-issued email addresses, student identification numbers, tuition fee information (including fees deferred to HELP/HECS), student admission and enrolment data (including subject, results and progression information), and student demographic data (including nationality, Indigenous status, country of birth, citizenship status, gender and date of birth).”

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